EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS. i21 



111 these quotations, " putting ofT the old man, and put 

 ting on the new," appears in both. The idea is furthei ex- 

 •plained by calhng it a renewal : in the one, " renewed in the 

 spirit of your mind ;" in the other, " renewed in knowledge." 

 In both, the new man is said to be formed according to the 

 same model : in the one, he is after God " created in right- 

 eousness and true holiness ;" in the other, he is renewed 

 " after the image of him that created him." In a word, it 

 is the same person writing upon a kindred subject, with the 

 terms and ideas which he had before employed still floating 

 in his memory.*' 



Ephes. 5 : 6-8 : " Because of these ildngs cometh the 

 ivrath of God iifon the children of disobedience. Be not 

 ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometime 

 iarkness, but now are ye light in the Lord : walk as children 

 jf light."! 



Colos. 3 : 6-8 : " For ivhich things' sake the ivrath of 

 God cometh on the children of disobedience : in the which 

 ye also walked some time when ye lived in them. But now 

 ye also put off all these. "$ 



These verses afibrd a specimen of that i^artial resem- 

 blance which is only to be met with when no imitation is 

 designed, when no studied recollection is employed, but 

 when the mind, exercised upon the same subject, is left to 

 the spontaneous return of such terms and phrases as, having 

 been used before, may happen to present themselves again. 



* In these comparisons we often perceive the reason why the 

 writer, though expressing the same idea, uses a different term ; namely, 

 because the term before used is employed in the sentence under a dif- 

 ferent form : thus, in the quotations under our eye, the new man is 

 Kaivoq 'av^poTZog in the Ephesians, and tov viov in the Colossians; but 

 then it is because tov Kacvbv is used in the next word, uvaKawov^ <a>. 



t Ephes. 5 : 6-S : Aici Tavra yap epxerai 7] bpyfj tov Qeov Ittl tov^ 

 vhvg T?/g uTTeidelag. M?} ovv yivEcrQe (n)fi(j£Toxoi uvtuv. 'Hrc yap ttotf 

 JKOTog, vvv 6a (pCjg h Kvpicj* ug TtKva (poTug TieptTTarelTS. 



t Colos. 3 : 6-8 : At.' a epx^rai rj upyf] tov Qeov eirl TOvg vlovg rf/c 

 U7:ei^eiag' kv olg kul v{j.elg ■KepLeTraTrjaaTs ttot€, ote k^fjTE hv aiiTolg. Nvvi 

 iVe d-Tod^ea^e kul v/xeig tu Truvra. 



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